[August 1, 1918]

Saratov

To Noguin

Today more than two workers are being sent. Strain every effort so as to set things in order. Regarding literature I shall give instructions.

Lenin

**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

1 Lenin's telegram is a response to V. P. Noguin's telegram of August 1, 1918 from Saratov reporting on the grave situation in the city and province in connection with the Czechoslovak mutiny, on kulak uprisings, on poor organizational and propaganda work among the population, especially the peasantry, on the necessity of sending from the Center one or two workers for Party work who are knowledgeable in newspaper affairs, as well as the need to dispatch *Pravda*, *Izvestiya*, *Bednoта*, and newspapers in Tatar and other local languages.

2 V. P. Noguin — Deputy Commissar of Labor, member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.